Insights and Stories on Crops

Jan. 4, 2011 at 2:29 pm CST

(Reuters) — Up to half of Australia’s current wheat harvest could be downgraded to animal feed or low-grade milling grain, raising concerns for a severe global shortage of higher-quality wheat and marring the nation’s biggest crop in eight years. Crop analysts and farmers told Reuters that up to 50 per […]

By bruce-hextall

Jan. 3, 2011 at 11:51 pm CST

An Edmonton biotech company has picked up federal funding for development work on an antifungal, antibacterial silver compound, toward approval for its use on pulse crops. Innovotech announced in December it will get $154,000 over two years from the federal Growing Canadian Agri-Innovations program for its work on Agress, a […]

Jan. 1, 2011 at 11:56 pm CST

Prairie flax growers will get a 50 per cent discount on the regular cost of testing their pedigreed and farm-saved seed for Triffid genetics, effective Saturday (Jan. 1). The Flax Council of Canada has budgeted $1.5 million to cover half the cost, up to $100, of tests during the 2011-12 […]

Dec. 30, 2010 at 3:47 pm CST

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has dropped Archer Daniels Midland’s canola crushing plant in Windsor, Ontario from its list of plants that are under import restrictions due to salmonella concerns, easing measures that sharply cut Canadian shipments of the livestock feed to its biggest export market. The FDA […]

By Reuters

Dec. 30, 2010 at 3:45 pm CST

Syngenta Crop Protection Canada has launched a new version of its Bravo fungicide for potato crops including zinc. Bravo ZN is a broad-spectrum, chlorothalonil fungicide protecting against late blight, botrytis vine rot and early blight and can be incorporated into a preventive program, Syngenta said in a recent release. The […]